History of Epidemiology and Advances in Public Health

What is Robert Koch famous for?

• Discovery of germ theory

• Convincing Europe germ theory was correct

• The discovery of vaccines

• The discovery of the bacteria responsible for Tuberculosisadn Cholera

This person is credited with designing an experiment where he divided the sailors into groups and figured out that oranges and lemons prevent scurvy.

• James Linder

• James Lind

• James Jandeson

• Lindre James

• Eric Norton

Edward Jenner cured ......

• Cowpox

• Smallpox

Florence Nightingale is remembered for___

• cleaning the hospitals and training nurses

• inventing the bandage

• catching rats

• having three sisters

Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett was instrumental in,

• the development of the COVID-19 Vaccine

• helping soldiers on the front lines of the Crimean War. She was denied her Office denied her request to help so she travelled independently and set up her own hotel/hospital.

• training nurses and being a part of the reform movement in sanitation

• creating a Department of Vital statistics to collect demographic data on the public

A pioneer in HIV/AIDS research.

• Joseph Lister

• Cotton Mather

• James Curran

• Sir William Petty

John Snow

• Father of Epidemiology; removed the pump handle from Broad Street

• Figured out that the cause of lung cancer was smoking cigarettes'

• Discovered that microorganisms cause fermentation and disease

• Brought the idea of smallpox inoculation to the United States

Richard Doll and Bradford Hill

• Father of Epidemiology; removed the pump handle from Broad Street

• Figured out that the cause of lung cancer was smoking cigarettes'

• Discovered that microorganisms cause fermentation and disease

• Brought the idea of smallpox inoculation to the United States

Louis Pasteur

• Father of Epidemiology; removed the pump handle from Broad Street

• Figured out that the cause of lung cancer was smoking cigarettes'

• Discovered that microorganisms cause fermentation and disease

• Brought the idea of smallpox inoculation to the United States

Onesimus

• Father of Epidemiology; removed the pump handle from Broad Street

• Figured out that the cause of lung cancer was smoking cigarettes'

• Discovered that microorganisms cause fermentation and disease

• Brought the idea of smallpox inoculation to the United States